Breast cancer affects our families: our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and grandmothers. Breast cancer may even affect you personally. That’s why it’s so infuriating when the new right-wing political director of the Susan G. Komen foundation successfully urged the respected institution to play politics and withdraw support from Planned Parenthood for breast exams for low-income women.

We thought Susan G. Komen for the Cure was devoted to saving the lives of victims of breast cancer; we must have misunderstood.

That’s why we are asking you to add your voice to this petition that will be sent to Komen’s founder and chief executive officer, Nancy G. Brinker, and to Komen’s board of directors.